According to Telework Exchange, “If white-collar employees who feel they could do their jobs from home began to telework twice a week, the United States could conserve 9.7 billion gallons of gasoline and save $38.2 billion a year.” These calculations are based on 50 miles round trips in vehicles getting 24 miles per gallon, with gasoline at $3.94/gallon.
In addition, you don’t pay for office expenses such as utilities, desk, chair, computer, and the office space itself.
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The following article is one of the best analysis of why Elance failed. You can read the original post here.
“Several important factors involved with their failure include: Too much competition, little service provider differentiation besides price, high service provider fees, no locality of services, ambiguous project descriptions, cheap Indians, as well as cheap Indians, and last but not least, cheap Indians.
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Elance, ODesk and Guru are trying to the “eBay of Outsourcing”. The idea is great but there are fundamental flaws in this model: Most of the bidders on those sites are typically freelancers, self employed and work at home. The reliability and quality of service are highly unpredictable. Elance, ODesk and Guru are just middlemen or marketplace so they have no control about the bidders at all.
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For 10 years, Red Herring’s editorial team has diligently surveyed entrepreneurship around the globe. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers have regarded the Red Herring 100 lists as an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation.
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Nanjing, China (PRWEB) December 31st 2008 – BPOVIA, China’s leading Virtual Assistant Service provider, has been selected as one of this year’s Red Herring Global 200 finalists. It is another prestigious award BPOVIA get after its winning of the Red Herring 100 Asia Awards in December 2008.
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Relying on the shrewd observation to the global hi-tech industry as well as impartial and independent selection process for more than 10 years, Red Herring, which is honoured as risk investment vane, has established the absolute authority of “The Bible of Silicon Valley”.
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Where to find a suitable investment places has become a tough question for many entrepreneurs. There is a notion which is widely accepted by the investors that the factories and infrastructures should be built in developing countries, where has the massive cheap labor-force and low cost of soil rent. However, as the time goes by, especially after the 9•11, the terrorist and extremist attack has become a very essential factor for the business people to make the decision of the investment. To be sure, both Iraq and Afghanistan would not be ideal places for investment, for the anti-terrorist war is going on there. Meanwhile, the serial terrorist attacks took place in Mumbai, the largest city-port in India, 27th Nov. 2008, monitored us even the places where seem like peaceful and owns the beautiful sceneries might be trustworthy.

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Thanksgiving Day has come. It is the time that BPOVIA should express their gratitude and thanks to our honored clients and website visitors. Without your support, we may not accomplish so much in the last year; without your unreserved trust, we may not be lucky enough to be nominated as the Finalists for the “Red Herring 100 Asia” Awards 2008. BPOVIA is the first virtual assistant service provider in the world to ever be nominated for this prestigious award.
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Maybe there are millions of TV stations worldwide broadcasting the G20 Summit these days. And there is no doubt that most people in developed countries focusing on what overtures would be put forward during the Summit.

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For 10 years, the Red Herring’s editorial team has diligently surveyed entrepreneurship around the globe. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers have regarded the Red Herring 100 lists as an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation.
Red Herring released 200 Finalists for the “Red Herring 100 Asia ” Awards 2008 at October 16, 2008.
200 finalists are from 13 countries and regions. Read more…
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